Thank you Elisabeth for reading this book with me and reviewing it! This was so much fun to collaborate with you again!

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

The pleasure was all mine! 😊💫

@Floridiansince94

Ай бұрын

@biblicalbookworn and @amhlifestyles I would like to recommend a non-fictional book to you both , Guadalupe and The Flower World Prophecy -How God Prepared the Americas for Conversion Before the Lady Appeared - the authors are Joseph Julian Gonzalez and Monique Gonzalez- this book is WONDERFUL!

It's important for Catholics to have one foot in the dream and one in the real. I must say how beautiful you both are. So happy to have found this channel. I would say the novel succeeded if the reader thought about it after. You too are having fun here talking about the novel. It sounds amazing reading a conversation with the shepherd using ones own inner-voice.

Thank you Elisabeth for this review with Monet. I remember reading this book many years ago and thinking that it was just okay. I think the author was trying to write a book in the tradition of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" which is very much an allegory. I'm glad you mentioned the Narnia Chronicles in this review as C.S. Lewis wrote at a far deeper and richer level. I remember being very moved by the sacrificial death of the character Aslan as he is clearly a typology of our Lord Christ. You were somewhat 'out of your comfort zone' in this review but good on you for doing something a bit different! Every blessing to you! 🙂🙏

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree!

Elisabeth! Congratulations for the first 9000 subscribers! God bless you!📯❤

@BiblicalBookworm

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! God bless you too! 💞

Enjoyed the video! If you're willing to give another novel a chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. It is a modern retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Psyche's older sister. Lewis considered it his best book by far.

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation!

Good job to both of you, great video!

@BiblicalBookworm

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks, I read this once at a recommendation of a friend. I get why she recommends it ofc, to strengthen both our faiths (she is Catholic as am I), though I understood the lack of sacramental references that was mentioned we would expect as Catholics. Like you I enjoy either theology related or religious texts, though I do read novels (my channel is based on one after all). But I thought it was a very interesting read (certainly not the only book one would read ever though). I guess like y’all, I’d would have liked if the sacrifices she made were harder and also see that she had applied what she learned in her home base. Also I’ve always thought there was something missing. For example I think the concept of self-pity is kind of glossed over in the book, and I would have wanted to go more in depth on that. I sometimes felt like it didn’t really expand on why Much-Afraid felt the way she did (which I think there’s definitely a way to do that without condoning sin and whatnot). If she wants the reader to identify with this Much-Afraid character I feel like there should be a little more than just “grin and bear it because it’s what God wants.” For example, sometimes self-pity is a sign that you’re not on the right path and God will direct you elsewhere. Sometimes it is definitely something to fight and push through. For me the best books and novels are the ones that talk about fighting the pain or evil, but not without recognizing and acknowledging struggle that the characters face.

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing!

Oh Elizabeth- now I know you don’t read novels but if you could make another exception I highly recommend Father Elijah by Michael D. O’Brien, he is a Canadian catholic author and artist! God bless you!

@BiblicalBookworm

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation! God bless you too!

Hi i m Brazilian viewer i still study english with your Works

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

Welcome to my channel! 😊

This channel is developing to profoundly usable platform. I hope you will consider Rene Girard books

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation!

I just found your channel. I'd like to recommend Catholic Theologian Michael D. O'Brien. Published in 80's 90 's by Ignatius Press. He writes novels ...!

@BiblicalBookworm

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation!

The way you talked about the novel, you sound like you REALLY like novels, lol. Maybe you could try reading some literary criticism (especially 19th century or early 20th) since that's a great introduction to most novels. The first few chapters of G. K. Chesterton's Biography of Dickens for instance.

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

How could I possibly sound like I like novels? 😂 But anyways, thanks for the recommendation!

awesome

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

😊

I can't "resonate" with your rating of books based on information contained. Even when I very rarely read novels now. If I was after information, I'd read encyclopaedias. Or notes at the back of some of the Bibles, instead of the Bible. There is so much distilled infomation I either don't know or I don't remember there. But a good video, thank you. I decided in the past to not buy this book and I think I did a right decision :) I'm getting back a little to novels (I enjoyed doing it so much in the past) by reading them sometimes to my daughter :) I'm on a lookout for some good ones for the younger audience to have them in our library if she'd want to read some in the future. Some of the novels were purely entertainment, but some were so fascinating to me. Of course, many of them were at odds with the faith in some ways which I didn't recognize or cared too much then. So I'd not enjoy them too much now. What I like to read, from time to time, is biographies, and I don't mean of saints. Some of them touch me in some parts a lot. Particularly when that involves suffering. I think it's related to that I (like is a not a good word here) to watch some of the good war movies. It helps me a lot to refocus me from myself. Particularly the self-pity.

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Regarding my preference for information: while you're right that an encyclopedia would have the highest density of definitions and concepts, other books are necessary to link these concepts. In some sense encyclopedias contain unprocessed information but processing information is necessary so that one is actually able to derive greater value from that information :)

Greetings Lady Elizabeth, Thoughts :- -> Review highlights, " Book - HFOHP View on Spiritual Life to Prioritize God Almighty amidst Distractive, Intrusive Thoughts by all means in every aspects." -> "Eternity is The Foundation for Key to Progressive Spiritual Adventure." -> Wonderful Insights. Thanks to you both. With regards, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)

@BiblicalBookworm

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

HI Saint Elisabeth and Saint Monet!!! what is your personal belief about Jesus Christ, not just whar others say, but what do you believe ??? (Eph 1:1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus: NKJV (Eph 1:1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:KJV you becoma a saint when you believe Jesus as your Lord and savior!!!!!

@BiblicalBookworm

2 ай бұрын

I really wouldn't call us saints yet!

@finnrasmussen8153

2 ай бұрын

@@BiblicalBookworm then you dont believe the word of God, you become a saint the day you recieve Jesus as your savior like it or not, the word of God says so